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September 09, 2019

DRC Ebola: CMRE update, September 8

CMRE has emailed the daily update for September 8, with data for September 7. Excerpt from the Google translation:

SUBJECT: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI AS AT SEPTEMBER 07, 2019

Date: Sunday, September 08, 2019

Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,079, of which 2,968 are confirmed and 111 are probable. In total, there were 2,064 deaths (1,953 confirmed and 111 probable) and 922 people healed.

• 403 suspected cases under investigation;

• 6 new confirmed cases, including:

º 4 in North Kivu, including 2 in Beni, 1 in Katwa and 1 in Kyondo;

º 2 in Ituri, including 1 in Mambasa and 1 in Mandima.

• 5 new confirmed deaths in North Kivu:

º 3 community deaths, including 1 in North Kivu in Beni and 2 in Ituri, including 1 in Mambasa and 1 in Mandima;

º 2 deaths in CTE in North Kivu, including 1 in Butembo and 1 in Katwa CTE.

• 3 people cured out of ETCs in North Kivu, including 2 in Beni and 1 in Butembo.

• No health workers are among the newly confirmed cases. The cumulative number of confirmed/probable cases among health workers is 157 (5% of all confirmed/probable cases), including 41 deaths.

/!\ The data presented in this table are subject to change after extensive investigation and after redistribution of cases and deaths in their respective health areas.

VACCINATION

• Since vaccination began on August 8, 2018, 215,776 people have been vaccinated;

• The only vaccine to be used in this outbreak is the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Merck, following approval by the Ethics Committee in its decision of 20 May 2018.

MONITORING AT ENTRY POINTS

• High-risk contact was intercepted at Kiwanja PoC in the Rutshuru territory of North Kivu. This is a 21-year-old woman who is on the twelfth day (D12) of follow-up. She is unvaccinated and is in contact with the confirmed Butembo case of 27 August 2019. This woman did not show any signs related to EVD at the time of her interception. She was handed over to the surveillance team who organized her return to Butembo for further follow-up.

• Since the beginning of the epidemic, the total number of travelers checked (temperature measurement) at the sanitary control points, up to 04 September 2019, is 92,350,244;

• To date, a total of 98 entry points (PoE) and sanitary control points (PoCs) have been set up in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri to protect the country's major cities and prevent the spread of the epidemic in neighboring countries

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CMRE has emailed the daily update for September 8, with data for September 7. Excerpt from the Google translation:

SUBJECT: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI AS AT SEPTEMBER 07, 2019

Date: Sunday, September 08, 2019

Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,079, of which 2,968 are confirmed and 111 are probable. In total, there were 2,064 deaths (1,953 confirmed and 111 probable) and 922 people healed.

• 403 suspected cases under investigation;

• 6 new confirmed cases, including:

º 4 in North Kivu, including 2 in Beni, 1 in Katwa and 1 in Kyondo;

º 2 in Ituri, including 1 in Mambasa and 1 in Mandima.

• 5 new confirmed deaths in North Kivu:

º 3 community deaths, including 1 in North Kivu in Beni and 2 in Ituri, including 1 in Mambasa and 1 in Mandima;

º 2 deaths in CTE in North Kivu, including 1 in Butembo and 1 in Katwa CTE.

• 3 people cured out of ETCs in North Kivu, including 2 in Beni and 1 in Butembo.

• No health workers are among the newly confirmed cases. The cumulative number of confirmed/probable cases among health workers is 157 (5% of all confirmed/probable cases), including 41 deaths.

/!\ The data presented in this table are subject to change after extensive investigation and after redistribution of cases and deaths in their respective health areas.

VACCINATION

• Since vaccination began on August 8, 2018, 215,776 people have been vaccinated;

• The only vaccine to be used in this outbreak is the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Merck, following approval by the Ethics Committee in its decision of 20 May 2018.

MONITORING AT ENTRY POINTS

• High-risk contact was intercepted at Kiwanja PoC in the Rutshuru territory of North Kivu. This is a 21-year-old woman who is on the twelfth day (D12) of follow-up. She is unvaccinated and is in contact with the confirmed Butembo case of 27 August 2019. This woman did not show any signs related to EVD at the time of her interception. She was handed over to the surveillance team who organized her return to Butembo for further follow-up.

• Since the beginning of the epidemic, the total number of travelers checked (temperature measurement) at the sanitary control points, up to 04 September 2019, is 92,350,244;

• To date, a total of 98 entry points (PoE) and sanitary control points (PoCs) have been set up in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri to protect the country's major cities and prevent the spread of the epidemic in neighboring countries